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Film Festivals, Horror, Juneteenth, reviews, Sundance

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Cinema Femme at Sundance Day 4: Happening, Alice, Hatching and Nanny

by cinemafemme

January 24, 2022

Happening The two best films I’ve seen thus far in 2022 won acclaim on the festival circuit last year prior their premieres at Sundance, and both happen to be astonishingly

Film Festivals, Horror, Sundance

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Cinema Femme at Sundance Day 2: Watcher, The Princess, Master, FRESH

by cinemafemme

January 22, 2022

Watcher  During yesterday’s excellent female filmmaker panel moderated by The Atlantic’s Shirley Li, I noticed a foreign poster for Stanley Donen’s “Charade”—the greatest Hitchcock thriller that Hitch never made—hanging on the

Awards, Film Festivals, Profile

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Cinema Femme Short Film Fest among the 12 recipients of Filmocracy’s first-ever fellowship awards for female-centric film festivals

by cinemafemme

December 9, 2021

Los Angeles, CA (December 9, 2021)—Filmocracy, the world’s premiere digital screening, distribution, and experience platform, has announced today its non-profit, The Filmocracy Foundation, is funding the first round of fellowships

2022 Awards, Documentaries, Interviews

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Marilyn Agrelo on Her Must-See Documentary “Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street”

by Matt Fagerholm

May 4, 2021

Sixteen years after her debut feature, 2005’s crowd-pleasing documentary, “Mad Hot Ballroom,” showed us how the art of dance transformed the lives of elementary schoolers throughout New York City, filmmaker

February Showcase, Film Festivals, LIVE Events, LIVE Q&A, Short Films

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Watch here February Showcase LIVE events 2/19/21 – 2/28/21

by cinemafemme

February 28, 2021

Cinema Femme Short Film Festival February Showcase | AwardsSunday February 28, 2021  | 11 AM PST / 2 PM EST / Announcements by February 2021 Mentor Kate Hackett and Cinema

Film Critics, Interviews

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Look Back: Film critic Carla Renata speaks her truth through her journey to becoming The Curvy Critic

by Rebecca Martin

February 23, 2021

"We made history doing that ['The Black Experience on Film' for Turner Classic Movies]. Turner Classic Movies had never done anything like that before. Because my love of film was
Interviews, LGBTQ+

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To Be a Free Person: Ksenia Ivanova on “Jack and Anna”

by Matt Fagerholm

June 29, 2020

“For many years, I had to confront the cruel system in my home country that does not tolerate people with a different mindset. People judged me for my ideas as

Black History, Chicago, Film Critics, Film Festivals, Interviews

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#TBT 2019 Sundance Ebert Fellows

by Rebecca Martin

January 16, 2020

Chaz Ebert introduced me to the 2019 Sundance Ebert Fellows Niani Scott, Whitney A. Spencer, and Tiffany Walden via Instagram as they were on their way to Park City, Utah,
Comedy Essays, personal essay

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‘Clueless’ broke down barriers and paved the way for today’s comedies

by Jaylan Salah

December 17, 2019

At the end, "Clueless" is both reflective and ahead of its time. It implants the image of the modern woman of the nineties, rebelling against the clean-shaven stereotypical second-wave feminists
Comedy Essays

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‘Girls Trip’: a dose of Black Girl Magic

by Marjorie H. Morgan

December 16, 2019

"Girls Trip" is a film that highlights and celebrates Black womanhood in a variety of forms. This includes a honour roll call of Black excellence with people like Iyanla Vanzant,
Chicago, Coming of Age, Halloween, Interviews, LGBTQ+

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A cult classic is in our midst with Jennifer Reeder’s teen noir ‘Knives and Skin’

by Rebecca Martin

December 5, 2019

"Knives and Skin" follows the investigation of a young girl's disappearance in a rural Midwest town. The coming-of-age film has been described as a mix of Lynchian thriller and high
Chicago, Interviews

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Transcending Gender: Chloe Baldwin on her web series ‘Like What You Like’

by Matt Fagerholm

November 15, 2019

It was no surprise that when Chloe Baldwin met me at Chicago’s Bourgeois Pig for her Cinema Femme interview two months ago, her sandwich of choice was the Hamlet. Her

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